Sharon Hayes & Brooke O’Harra: Echo Chamber | Frieze New York 2025

Video (5:59):Artist Sharon Hayes and theatre director Brooke O’Harra ‘unspool genealogies of queer life’ in Echo Chamber, a live performance for Frieze New York 2025 at the iconic Tribeca venue Artists Space, May 2025.

‘Echo Chamber‘ unfolds as a score for five performers and an installation of audio cassette players and microphones. Hayes and O’Harra draw from their archive of cassette recordings, both commercial and personal, from the late 1960s to the late 1990s, including radio broadcasts and Hayes’s 1987 conversations with lesbians across the US.
Reverberating across recorded and live voices, past and present, ‘Echo Chamber’ considers the current political moment and its confounding temporal orientations; ‘what it means to be going “backwards”, particularly for queer folk’. – Frieze

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